Eric Gaillard/Reuters Earlier this year, Caryn Hoadley received an unexpected letter after a routine mammogram. The letter said her mammogram was clean but that she has dense breast tissue, which has been linked to higher rates of breast cancer and could make her mammogram harder to read. “I honestly don’t know what to think about the letter,” said Hoadley, 45, who lives in Alameda, California.
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